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MAt LS. AAR IV L1:0-1 'aterford. DuL-1 Cadiz, i Lisbon, t Dub lin, t Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TAISILVIS O'CLOCK Consols - - - 69 i Red. Ann: . — 69; 70 69 ; THL SUN. 301,51 S QUIS LUCIA!, YALSUH AUDIAT ? LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1810. We this morning received .flutch Papers, from which we have extra&ed the following interesting address of Lours BUONAPARTE to the Dutch Legis- lative Body on his abdicating the Throne. It is written with more boldness than we should have expel ed, and affords additional proof, if any were wanting, that BUONAPARTE is as regardless of the ties of blood as he is of the diaates of justice. The unfortunate Louts may soon find, that even the sa crifice of a Throne has not ensured his personal ,safety The King, to the Legislative Body : " Gentlemen, • I charge the i‘linisters come to the Council to present to your assembly the resolution which I find myself compelled to take, in consequence of the military occupation of my capital. The brave French soldiers haVe no other enemies than such as are enemies to the common cause-of Holland and myself. They are, and ought to be received with all the rtgard and civility possible; but it is not less true , that in the aetual situation of Holland, when an en tire army; a crowd of custom-house officers, and when even the national army is taken from under the power of Goverment, when every place, with the exception of the capital, was under the orders of a foreign Officer, I thought it right to delare to Marshal the Duke of Reggio, and the Charge d'Af- . faires from the Emperor, that if they occupied the capital and its vicinity, I should consider that opera tion as a manifest violation of the rights of the people, and the most sacred rights among men. It was this which made me refuse the custom house officers entrance, into Meudon, Naarden, and Datnau. I was right in doing so, because the treaty did not authorise the presence of custom-house of ficks, but upon the bank of the sea, and the mouths of rivers.- On the 16t11 of June Y received, through the Charge d'Affaires of his Majesty, the Emperor and King, an assurance that it was not his intention to occupy Ams'erdam, and that led me to hope thal he would abide strialy by a treaty, the conditions of which were drawn up by his Ma• jesty the Emperor himself. Unfortunately, my error was not of long duration, as I receiv ed a communication, that 20,000 French troops had united in the environs of Utrecht. I con sented, notwithstanding the extreme penury and embarrassments , of . -our finances, to furnish them with subsis'ence and: other necessary things, al though the treaty precisely expressed that there should be 6000 men ,only maintained at the expense of the kingdom ; .but I feared that this collecting of troops was done with other views unfavourable to our Government, and late in the night of the 2gth, I received official information that his . Majesty the Emperor insisted upon the occupation of Amster dam, and the establishment of the French head- quarters in that capital.' " Under th, , se circumstances, Gentlemen, you cannot doubt that I was 'willing to suffer for my people fresh humiliations, if I could have preserved the hope of being able to support such a state, and above all, to prevent new evils; but I could not de ceive myself any longer. I have sigued. a treaty, dictated by France, under the conviction that measures the most disa greeable for the nation, and for myself, would not he 'followed up; and that, satisfied with my volun tary abdication, which is the consequence of V....! said treaty, every thing would go on smoothly „. be tween France and Holland. " The Treaty presents, indeed, a great number of pretences, and of new gri?vances and accusations;, but can pretences be ever wanting ? I ought to have confided in the explanations and communication which have been made to me, besides this Treat, and in the formal and circumstantial declaration, which I have not failed to do; such as, that the Custom- Fl(oAse Officers would only interfere in the measures relating to the blockade; that the French troops should only remain on the coast; that the doma;ns of the State, and those of the Crown, show(' be respected; that the debts of the countries which had been ceded would be charged to France; in a 'word, that from the number of troops which were to be furnished, there should be deducted those which, at this• moment, are at the disposal of France, in Spain, and even that for the maritime slre•.gth, the necessary time would be allowed. " I have always flattered myself that the Treaty woL:Id • lie admitted. I have been mistaktn, and if the entire devotion I have manifest ed for my duty, on the llt of last April, his only tended to drag on and prolong the existence of the country for three months, I have the cruelly grievous satisfaaion (yet the only one which now I can have) that I have fulfilled my obli gations to the end ; that I have (if I am per mitted to so , so) sacrificed to the existence and to the welfare of ithe country, more than 1 ought to have done. But after the submission and, the resignation of the Ist of April, 1810, I should be much to blame if I consented to retain the title of King, being no longer but an instrument, no longer commanding, not only in the country, but even in my own capital, and, perhaps, soon not even in my palace. " I should be, nevertheless, a witness of every thing that might be,going on, without being able to do any thing fur my people ; responsible for all oc currences, without the power to prevent them or their influence. I should have exposed myself to the complaints of both sides, and, perhaps, have oc casioned great misfortunes, by doing which I should have betrayed my conscience, my people, and my duty. " I have for a long time foreseen the extremitt , to which I am redUced, but I could not have pre vented it without sacrificing my most sacred duties, without ceasittg to have at heart the interest of my people, and without ceasing. to connect my fate wth that of the country; now that,Holland is reduced to that condition, I have, as King of Holland, but one course to take, and that is to abdicate the throne in favour of my children ; any other cause w ou ld have only augmented the misfortunes of my reign. I should have perhaps seen often the peaceable in habitants, victims to contentions of government, destroyed at once. How, then, could an idea of resistance ever enter my mind ? " My children, born Frenchmen like myself, would have seen in a just cause, (but which tliu would not have believed to be solely mine) the blood of their countrymen flow; I bad then but one course to take. " My brother, so violently irritated against me, is not so against my children, and doubtless he will not destroy what he has done, and deprive them of their inheritance, since he has not, nor can have, any subject of complaint against one, who will not for a long time to come reign himself. His mother, to whom the regency appertains by the Constitution,will do every thing that shall be agreeable to the Emperor, my brother, and will succeed better than myself,who have had the misfortune never to be successful in my endeavours of that kind. And it the conclusion of a maritime -*peace, perhaps before, ; my brother, knowing the st ite of things in this country, the esteem its inhabitants merit, how much their wel fare accords with the interests well understood of his empire, will do.for this country all it has a right to expect, as the reward of its numerous sacrifices to France, of its fidelity, and /of the interest with which it cannot fail to inspire those who judge of it without prejudice. " Perhaps I am the only obstacle to the reconcilia• tion of this country with Franoe, and should that be so, I might find some consolation in dragging out the remainder of a wandering and languishing life at a distance from the first objeas of my whole affec• tion, this good people, and my son. " These are my principal motives ; there are others, equally powerful, with respect to which I must be silent ; but they will easily be divined. The Emperor, my brother, though strongly preju diced against me, must feel that I could not ,act otherwise ; he is great, and he ought to be just. " As to you, Gentlemen, I should be much more unhappy even than I am, if possible, could I imagine that you would not do justice to try intentions. May the end of my career prove to the nation and to you, that I have never deceived you; that I have had but one aim, the true interest of the country; that the faults I may have committed are solely to be ascribed to my zeal, which caused me to employ, not always' the best, but the most praaiicable means of over coming the difficulty of circumstances. "Be, Gentlemen, my advocates with the Nation ; inspire it with an attachment for the Prince Royal, who deserves it, ill may judge from his happy na tural disposition. The Queen has the same interests as' myself. " I cannot, Gentlemen, conclude, without re commending to you, in the most earnest manner, and in the name of the interests and of the exist ence of so many families, where lives and proper ty would be infallibly compromised, to receive the French with attention, witt r i kindness, and the cordiality which is due to the brave people of the first nation in the Universe; to your friends, to your allies, who consider obedience as the first of duties, but which they 'cannot fail to esteem the more, in proportion as they benome ac quainted with a nation, brave, industrious, and Worthy of esteem, under every consideration. " In whatever place .1 may happen to terminate my days, the name of Holland, and the inoi live ly prayers for its happiness, will be my last words— will be my last thoughts. " Louis N." 1 •' luly Ist, iSia." EXTR.:CT OF A LETTER FROM ROTTERDAM, JULY 23. " Ali the young men in Holland are going for soldiers. The department for Foreign Affairs will be done away, and the naval department receive that name. All the new Of f icers of State are to be French." We yesterday expressed an opinion, that BUONA* PARTE had discovered or suspedled some plot, from the extraordinary precautions which had been adopt ed respecting persons leaving. Paris. That opinion is strengthened by some intelligence which has since been received. A Decree has been issued by 800- NAPAIITE, commanding that no person whatever, coming from Great Britain, as a passenger on board ally licensed vessel, shall be permitted to land on any part of the French coast, except those who consti tute the crew of the said vessel. It is stated in a Morning Paper, that Ministers have received authentic, though not official intel ligence, of the surrender of Ciudad Roderigo on the sth inst. We can undertake to state p.sitively, that Government have not rece:vt:d any account whatever to that effect. Fresh rumours were cir- culated yesterday of a battle having taken. place in Portugal, but they were Wholly destitute of founda tion. It is confidently stated, that in consequence of thecritical state of affairs in► S.cily, Guerninent ate about to send out a mission to that Island. We have heard a Gentleman who lately filled a high official situation named, as likely to be employed upon this occasion ; but our information dues not enable us to speak with ahy degree of precision upon the snbject. We received this morning the following letter from Yarmouth : " YARMOUTH, JULY 26.—Arrived the Solebay frigate from the Baltic, with three vessels under convoy; those for the northern ports have, been convoyed thither by the Wrangler ; the rest are gone into the Thaines. The Hero cutter, has also arrived, and brings the following intelligence from Capt. MARSHALL of the Lynit— " Captain HBLLICOTT, of the tide, informed Captain MARSHALL on the 20th inst . , that a convoy of homeward bound, in charge of the Forward, gun-brig, consisting of 42 sail, bad been. captured off the Naze of Norway on the Igth, by fire Danish brigs and two schooners, and 'driven into-different ports of Norway. The outward bound convoy under the Starling and Aggressor, now off here, have been strengthened by the Solebay and Brisces. " The Hero left the homeward BAtic convoy, consisting of about 200 sail, off Rob's Snout, on the 21st inst. with a fine breeze at North-east, under proteuion of his Majesty's ships Lynx, Clio, Snake, Rosario, Guckstadt, and Centinel ; and his Majesty's ship Tartar, Rose, -and Primrose, following them up some distance a-stern." Wednesday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, ELIZABETH, and MARY, took an airing to Stoke, and visited Mr. VYSE and family, where they were sumptuously entertained, and re turnad to the Palace at twelve o'clock. The Prince of WALES arrived at Windsor on Wednesday evening, on a visit to her A/AIL:STY, and yesterday morning rode out with his MAJESTY, and Princesses AUGUSTA and SOPHIA ; but a shower coming on, the Royal Party soon returned to the Palace. , The PRINCE visited Princess AMELIA, with whom he remained some time. We have the ple,a sure to announce her Royal Highness much better. The PRINCE remains in town for the purpose of reviewing the brigade of Life Guards on Monday next, at Wimbeldon Common ; after which, his ° Royal Highness will go down to his -Marine Palace at Brighton, arid remain there till alter' pi's Birth:: day. On Monday an address was presented to his Royal Highness the Duke. of CuraaEacANri, on his late providential escape -from. rmasNinatT6ti, by the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, Over which his Royal Highness presides as Chancellor. Some of the letters lately received from l'ortuguNl make most honourable mention of the hospitality and attention shewn to the otticers-'of the British army by the Marchioness Angij'a, .who resides at Belem, near Lisbon. :Mete are leo teople in her house, fed by her every day; it •brilig an esublish ed custom in the limilyto keep all the.servanis that come into their service frotn one generation to an other, and to maintain ihem in every thing. There are also about 30 children, tOr whom a school is kept . -in the house, which the Marchioness attends three times a day. The Marchioness has t'wo sons in ihe army, one of . whom is Aide-camp to Marsh 11 Beres ford. The Marquis emigrated with the Prince Re gent, of shitoto he is . one ut the Ministers. At Ross Wool Fair ; on Friday last, the clip of wool exhibited for sale was tmusu.dly small. There were, however, some samples of tine Anglo-Me rino, for which prices were asked , frOtri'4Bs. to' 6os. per stone. Fleece and trinded wool sold from 365. to 475.; and lambs' wool from 265. to34s. - 6d. per stone. There was a very indifferent show of prime cattle; and little or no demand for those of the working kind. Horse 4 and sheep. were .more numei,,us ; out . the sale of live stock of every description has seldom beau known su dull. NAVAL NEWS. iPLYMOUTH, JULY 24.—Went into harbour ills Majesty's ship Triumph. Arrived the Joseph and Grace, Guichy ; Agnes; Smith; • and Fancy, Crews, from lersey ; Ann and IVilliarn, Best Yeoman's Glory, 'Benson ; Good Statesman, Fartint ; Ann , Skelson ; Adive, Webb ; and Uni(Jii, Treneman, froth Wales; and the Elizabeth, Phelps, from London, • juiv 25.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Scipion, Admiral Stopford, Captain Bateman, from Basque Roads ; Friends Adventure, Barker, horn Ipswich; Speculation, Koval' /Tom Wales ; Favourite, Hernsley ; Derwent, Scott ; Raven. Fowles; Frederick, Taylor; and Mary Ann, Harrison, /cotta Sunderland; and the Commerce, Foot, from London. The brig Ocean, AUTIONE, from Hull, with a cargo, bound to Gibraltar, put in here in cons& quence of the Captain having jammed and lacerated ' his hand and arm by accident at sea. Sailed his Majesty's ship Plover for Lisbon. PORTSMOUTH, JULY Maj , s(y's ship Ca" datetted issues Convoy Instructi.,ns to the tr:de bound to Portugal, Cadiz, Gibraltar, and the diterranean. Came last evening into the harbour his .IM3' jesiy's ships Delight and Mall:orouglt from b, it' head. Arrived the Dick and Henry ; COOTH ; and Dol phin from Guernsey ; L'7lll Ll, MONDAY, fl'Out Lou don ; and the Charlotte, HANSEFOED, from 'Sun. derlan:!. Sailed (lie Arethusa, • SPENCE ; SIVO, \VEST i AiS/4/op/IS, RANGER ; Ititehead and .LVo,:filky GRANT, for Sunderlaficl. Nu ;arrivals or s..tilings yesttiday. FALMOUTH, JULY - 24.---Sdiled 'be Dakc of Mon trose packet for Rio Jani,:ro ; dm! the PrinLos bet 4 packet for Gibraltar and :vLlta. DEAL, JULY 2, G . —Arcivrd the Furious gun•br;g , with a convoy of coas:ers, fiotu are sailed .for different destinations. The Furious remaina. SHEERNESS, JULY 26.—Sailed his Majesty's br is Vixen. Arrived his Majesty's brig Fly. Came 'down thy. riker Tha,Les the Gleaner 50 " vc.lyit)g.=vessel. YARMOUTH, JULY 26.—Ca1,t. MARSHALL, of the Lynx, brings intelligence that the col roy D a ier 1116 care of the Forward gun-brig, consistin g (,f 49 sj l ' was captured off the Naze of Norway, by fis ts Danish brigs and two schooners. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. Comus, for the Fame, an Aiiirican, on the z;th an , / 26th instant, at No. 1;, 110. born-cow t, ; rek.;alleJ 41- r, ‘Vednesdays and l'hursda)a. Piercer, tar the 111erc;urius, on board at Plymouth, on the 26th instant, if in port; rec.il Lit as it 00 Ye. Alexandria, for thirteen veaads captured between the 24 11/ November and zzd De cem b er , W , ISA ; at N o . 13 , CJ George-street, Westminster. The Sea.Hurse, for the Turkish frigate Iladera Z :ar e ' captured July 6, iB,aB.—The share:'arising L h ere.rom wi ll lr paid over to Greenwich H os pi ta l , the said still) being now 'a the Mediterranean. The Paz, for the Etsigneur and Sylt, destroyed MaY 14 ' 148, wilLbe paid on board, ou arrival at Yarmouth, ai. ,l called at NO. 6, stanhope.street Strand The Monkey, for Asphalon, recaptured October ^7, and tor the :raw Metta Dorothea, and Aima Catitarina, 01 , 1) :1 Cured Ottober 3 I, 18 , )L, will b e p ai d on arrival, and reca i'e at No. 2, l ames -street, Adelphi. The Majestic, tor the De H oo p, captured May 23, t 3 , b ; s and for the N icolia awl Martini, captured May 2 , "' „ii was paid and recall e d at N o. z. latnea.street, Adelpiti, - the 12th instant. • The Thisbe, for the General Mulenfells, captured Oc t° ; ber 28, 1807, will be paid on the 25th instant, at Clifford's. un, and there recalled on VL(liiesdays and days tOr three months. kg , The Cossack, for La Mouclic.., captured August 5, 1- will be paid, and recalled as 'above. • So7 o L'Aigle, for the fettnello, capt ure d December 26, I Il i was paid on board. at i'l ) mouth , the loth insial,r, and he recalled at Mr. L o ck ) er's lyinoutn, on I 'r;il,4)s Tuesdays, for three ino,itiis. Speculator, fur the Trial, recaptured March I.!. irg f e was paid on boatel at heal, on the 7th i!.stant, and recaliecievery day at No. Iz, Upper Thames -street; for La ' months. The Essex . , for the Dutch vessels captured a - the islan d of St. Helena, June z 4, i7cs, was 1 aia a sixth ..net float dead on the sth instant, at NO. 5, Winte Lion-couit, lane, and will there be recailL:i on The jalouse, for the ~'h, iNovernber 3, i 8 .E, will be paid on board,'in ine C, ve m Cork, on the "0, or sooner, if the ship at lives in cwt. - and recalled at Air. Callaghan's, Cork, for three months. • 0 35 The Dritid,, for La Jenny, eaptur.-f !tine 23, IS , 9.., 1 pc paid On board, at Pl 3 inJutli, on tt:e 13th instant, and tecal led at No. IS, Clement's inn, on "I uesdays and 1 -- 1 03 ) for three months. The Coinet, tor L a Sylph e , captured Aug u st it, • csoSt was paid on the 17111 instant, at No. 115, Clement', Ito'. - i ec will be there (et:4lw, 'um T4ealay s 1. 1 -m a y s , for ' ll months. The same, fur La M ot i c h e an d L c Pierre CLesar,ll,l cap tu re st August, iltoB, and sharing by i.grecinent with bib ‘'i s:s i „ ' ,t be„" ships Unicorn, La Sei ne , anti Cossack, was paid, and c r " i " recalled . , as above. The t'ruiscr, for the Erratmel, captured Septetn s ' cr :;:' 1807, will he paid on tu g tyth aisiaar, at Nu. a, Adelphi, and ilh.rc A navigable cabal from the branch of the `7leds °l et Tunbridge lo Portsmouth is intendu.d, bywh j, l O inland navigation will at all times he had Iron) flat Roy.ll dock-yard at that p 1 is to . Chatham, wit l " 3 l l- the hazardous navigation of th e narrow paris Of t 0 British Channel to the M e t ro; o h s. A survey of r`le f hind necessary to be cu t through has been W ei i made by Mr. Rennie, and th e est i m ated expeuc eis about 50,0001. . The impregnatie, of 98 .guns ; building in G l4 ,, t i; ham-yard, which is to be kunel,ed the Ist of . n c ", month, is six fe e t • looer than the Queen Chaf t I.ltely launched at Deptford, which is a ti ll rate. 0 5 A survey has been made under the patrontigLl , 0 we understand,' of th,.. Post °like, with . a view I t the torrnaL,i; of a new roil from the eastern oft c) t Loi:don to B:ii - net. _ The line will pass along til tij , country to the east ward " anijol' „ r ing the an&ent Northern raid somewhere ob ° e , alney Hatch, will come out wiLli it upon tiM P r sent road at Whetstone. th e 4dr, '1 ' 41 t! A ti v4 , i It .4 11 , t ,uti tlt2 ti Lit to 'r (t g r ' \''%